Object detail fade? What does it do?

afaik it makes the game use lower quality effects on objects past a certain distance. the setting changes how far away the fading starts.---"The Internet: where women are men, men are women, and little girls are the FBI."

Enabling it grabs several frames. I can notice no difference between them. Stuff that looked nice at a distance before still looks nice, stuff that looked like crap at a distance still looks like crap.

I leave it on.---http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4062/lightningrocks.gif